It is crucial for our children, especially those who are immobile, to have a stretching routine incorporated into their daily routine, whether it is passive or active. If your child does not have a home stretching exercise programme yet, do ensure that you speak to a physiotherapist to obtain one. It may be more time consuming, but imagine the joy and satisfaction they feel when you praise them for even trying to participate.Ģ) Have a stretching routine and stick to it! However, it is so important for us to remember to include them in performing such tasks! Getting them to participate with varying degrees of assistance (from independent to hand over hand assistance) can increase your child's confidence and improve their self-esteem. Daily tasks that we normally find easy such as putting on shoes and socks, feeding oneself, opening a bottle and so on, may be more difficult and time consuming for our children to perform, hence we tend to do it for them. More often than not, we tend to perform as many daily tasks as we can for our children. With that in mind, here are a few physiotherapy tips and strategies that caregivers can adopt:

Ultimately, the aim of physiotherapy is to maximize your child's quality of life by working with their caregivers to empower the child and increase their independent mobility to their fullest potential. It is important for me to ensure that caregivers are comfortable in conducting the exercises on their own without compromising their own posture and comfort. I also teach caregivers handling skills and strategies for positioning for improved posture and comfort, especially for children who suffer from scoliosis arising from their condition. Also, intervention would incorporate management of the secondary issues that the child may present with, such as coping strategies for scoliosis, hip subluxations/dislocations, optimizing respiratory function and infection control.Īs majority of my clients are seen at the comfort of their own home, I modify the home exercise programmes according to what the clients have available at home whether it is to use stools or the sofa, or even the neighbourhood playground/environment. Crawling, walking, running, jumping) through fun games and activities that incorporate training for strength, balance, coordination, flexibility and endurance, depending on the child’s needs.

Interventions will then be focused on the promotion of mobility and achieving age appropriate gross motor skills (eg. After an assessment to identify such movement impairments and/or the aspects of gross motor skills in which the child is delayed in, I will set functional goals with the caregivers and the child (where able), in order to optimize the child’s functional mobility in the most efficient way possible. My clients in Club Rainbow have a variety of conditions ranging from Cerebral Palsy to Muscular Dystrophy to genetic or chromosomal syndromes, all of which contribute to some form of movement impairment and/or delay in their gross motor skills. Let us speak to some therapists to understand more about the services.

To register your child, please click on the link Therapy Referral Form Club Rainbow provides various therapy services to meet the needs of our beneficiaries.

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